Aga Faaker Sandal

You can’t always pay proper attention to what’s happening around you in this city while driving — unless something suddenly pulls your attention away from the road and escaping traffic…
One day, while I was picking up the kids from school, one of them said:
“Mom! Did you see these mohabbats (translates to “kindness,” “love,” or “affection” in English) on the wall?!!!”
And right then, I turned the wheel and we went chasing after a mohabbat —
a kind of kindness that had worked like a secret code for Generation Z, and they had quickly discovered it…
From that day on, I wished for a collaboration between Agha Bibi and Mr. Mohabbat — the mohabbat that Mr. Faker painted across the walls of Tehran.
And it was Yassi.T who introduced me to this wish of mine (Mr. Faker)…
and the rest of the story — well, let’s leave it for another night from these thousand and one nights

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Mehrnoosh Shah Hosseini